Bryan Swindell

Welcome to my website.  My general interest is in natural resource management within mountainous regions.  Currently, I am focusing on issues related to water resources in arid landscapes of the American West.  Climate data across the West continues to indicate a warming trend, and the region's population continues to grow.  Ensuring that people and the ecosystem they inhabit each have enough water to meet their needs may be the single most important issue in the West today.

To that end, I am pursuing a Master's degree in Earth Sciences at Montana State University in Bozeman.  As a graduate student in the Paleoecology Lab at MSU, my research involves the use of tree-rings to reconstruct past climates, a practice known as dendroclimatology.  Visit my research page for details.         

I am also working as a geographer for DTM Consulting, Inc. in Bozeman.  We provide geographic analysis technologies to natural resource projects across the West.  Our primary tools are Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and relational databases.  Our clients include city, county and state governments, as well as other private firms and non-governmental organizations.  We have expertise in watershed hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, wildlife and vegetation ecology, as well as growth planning and land use analysis.  Please visit our website for more information.

Feel free to contact me with any questions or ideas you may have.